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EPIC-PP-2026-002 · Extremism & Political Islam · 20 October 2026

Lethal Certainty: A Philosophy of Extremism Without Religion

Public debate about terrorism keeps asking which religion is to blame. This article argues that the question is badly posed. Terrorism is better explained by a structure of belief called lethal certainty: certainty that has…

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Policy essay
EPIC-PP-2026-004 · Gulf Strategy · 20 October 2026

The Computational Homeland: Epistemic Sovereignty for Small States in the AI Age

When a government ministry drafts a policy brief with a foreign large language model, when a schoolchild receives homework explanations shaped by training data collected far from home, and when a public portal answers citizens in…

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Research article
EPIC-PP-2026-012 · AI Governance · 20 October 2026

Whose Arabic? Diglossia, Dialect Gaps and Representational Justice in Arabic Large Language Models

Arabic is spoken by hundreds of millions of people, but it is not one variety. Arabic speakers write and speak formally in Modern Standard Arabic and live much of their lives in regional dialects that differ widely from it and…

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Arabic · Research paper
EPIC-PP-2026-013 · Extremism & Political Islam · 20 October 2026

من الفكرة إلى التنظيم: في فلسفة الإرهاب وتحوّلات العنف المؤدلج من «رسالة التعاليم» إلى «إدارة التوحش»

يدرس هذا البحث الإرهاب المؤدلج لا بوصفه انفجارًا مفاجئًا للعنف، بل بوصفه حصيلة بناء فكري وتنظيمي متدرّج تُصاغ فيه الطاعة قبل أن تُصاغ البندقية. وينطلق من سؤال فلسفي محدد: كيف تتحول فكرة دينية-سياسية إلى ترخيص أخلاقي بالقتل، ثم…

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